Sentence examples for near this border from inspiring English sources

— As a red pickup truck believed to be carrying drugs raced down a rural road near this border town last month, a state police helicopter that joined the pursuit warned units on the ground to keep their distance.

LAREDO — The high walls of Alexander Estates, an affluent development nestled near this border city's country club and golf course, were supposed to keep the narcotics world at bay.

Very near this border outpost, on a recent Saturday night, a small band of Dickensian characters — two tall, pale women with thin, reddish hair; one short, stout, bustling brunette; and four men, rather unsteady on their feet — set up a portable loud-speaker system on the sidewalk and began to preach.

Soviet troops, who have been withdrawing from Afghanistan since May 15, abandoned their garrisons in the village near this Pakistani border town, leaving them for the moujahedeen resistance fighters to reclaim.

Dr François Nosten, SMRU's director, has studied malaria in this border region, near where the disease first became drug resistant, for three decades.

Real-life parallel: Down to its location near the border, this episode couldn't come much closer to predicting the current fear and indecision about how immigrants are received and perceived in the US.

Wentto observation platform when time drew near for border search.

But, again: There are no participants in the caravan who are anywhere near the border at this point anyway.

But nowadays, sitting unarmed in an Afghan drugstore here in this city near the border, he carried only a single pen in his shirt pocket.

AITA AL SHAAB, Lebanon — Thousands of men, women and children gathered in this village near the border with Israel, jumped to their feet, pumped their fists and cheered as Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, vowed on Friday to step up the fight against the radical Sunni Muslims whom he accused of a car bombing on Thursday in one of the group's strongholds in Beirut.

The real audience was not in this northern city, near the border with the nominally independent Kurdish zone, but elsewhere.